It is great if you read a document you really can agree with: The African Youth Charter is such a document. On 21 pages and 31 articles, this treaty between the member states of the African Union spells out what is crucial in the field of youth participation: National youth policies, National youth adminstration, real [...]
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Today, the Civil Society Development Forum has started. It is a conference of Non-Governmental Organizations taking place in Geneva. I am attending here together with a lot of youth organizations. Its main focus is to reach the Millenium Goals
Salil Shetty, Director of the UN Millenium Campaign, was pleased that some of the Millenium Development Goals [...]
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“A land [Palestine] without a people…” This is part of a popular saying used as justifying the foundation of the current state of Israel. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Although never its own, independent state, Palestine has been continuously inhabited- in recent times mainly by Christian and Muslim Arabs.
When [...]
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Refering to how difficult has been for some people to find a job, and specially because of Roger´s comment about the situation there in Germany with the very well prepared people, I would like to share a story. This one, belongs to a very close person. Of course I had his permission to talk about [...]
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I like coffee. Very much actually. And here is a film about coffee. But it is not about how much milk you take into your coffee. It is about how little the coffee growers actually get for the tremendous work they do. Most is taken by the Northern companies.
“Trade is more important than Aid,” says [...]
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Posted in Life on June 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
After two years… finally I go back home here in my beautiful place… it is so nice and so happy to meet all beloved family and friends… I feel like born again and seems like everything is so good together with all the people who are waiting for me… hmmm… I directly attacked my favorite [...]
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Lack of opportunities, age, being a single mother, not enough financial resources to study, experience….. Many of these reasons we face when getting a job. Specially if you are approaching 30`s. This is a very common situaction that many young people are facing in LatinAmerica. I have seen, and experienced myself, how difficult is to get a [...]
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George Arende who is very active in the youth ministry of the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church sent me this article. It describes the effects of war from the perspective of those who had to flee the war:
“Fuheis, Jordan, June, 2007-We are in Fuheis West Amman in Jordan, an area that is largely occupied by 60% [...]
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There is war in so many parts of the world. And we hear so many stories what happens to the victims of war. That is horrible but is necessary for us to understand the consequences of war.
However, there is also the perspective of the soldiers who fight the war - and their loved ones at [...]
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Posted in UN on June 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The UN held an expert working group to research how to bring cultures together, and their findings revealed an emphasis on media, youth empowerment and migration was key. I agree! This is what young people and youth organizations have been saying for years. Student exchanges and investments in youth employment are key to reach young [...]
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